On Thu, 2019-01-17 at 17:04 +0000, Emmanuele Bassi via desktop-devel- list wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 at 16:59, <mcatanz...@gnome.org> wrote: > > > Release and design teams also don't want redundant apps in core, > > and > > there is interest in somewhat reducing the number of apps in core. > > We > > had been planning for several years to remove eog (obsoleted by > > gnome-photos and to remove evince with gnome-documents. Now it > > looks > > like gnome-photos and evince will be the winners instead. (eog is > > a > > very nice app, but once gnome-photos gains the ability to handle > > images, it becomes kinda redundant, right? I only hesitate due to > > nomenclature: not all images are photos. Maybe gnome-photos needs > > a > > rename.) > > Removing Evince would have been slightly complicated even if > Documents were developed more heavily than it is because Evince is > used for the print preview in every GTK application, and nobody ever > considered writing the equivalent functionality for Documents in the > first place.
Nobody added the ability for gnome-documents to open files... I'll probably split off Books at some point in the future. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
